Christian Dior, spring/summer 2012. Image by Catwalking.
Christian Dior, spring/summer 2012. Image by Catwalking.
The Christian Dior results are in and, contrary to what some people had predicted in March when John Galliano, Dior designer, was fired for saying bad stuff, they are good. In fact, they are very good.
Revenue for the first nine months is up 21 per cent (at constant exchange rates) to €705m against the same period in 2010 and retail revenue rose by 27 per cent (note: these are the Dior brand results, official name “Christian Dior Couture,” as opposed to the Dior Group results, which also include LVMH, which Dior owns). This is all inclusive of the period where many mentions of the brand were attached to the words “arrested” and “anti-Semitism” and “racial slurs,” you realise.
So what do we make of this? The conclusions, it seems to me, are pretty obvious:
Vanessa has been the FT’s fashion editor since 2003, and is based in New York, though she lived in London for 12 years.